Chapter 3
Kasumi snuggled deeper into her covers as she heard someone calling her name. "Lady Kasumi, please get up. Sesshomaru-sama is waiting for you in the dinning room and he doesn't like to wait." Kasumi ignored the voice and went back into the wonderful world of dreams.
Sesshomaru on the other hand was waiting in the dinning room with all of his patience slowly slipping away. He gave a low aggitated growl and set off to Kasumi's room. Sesshomaru waited for no one. So he marched up to her room and pushed open the large oak doors. The servent he sent to wake up Kasumi bowed her head, "Sesshomaru-sama I am very sorry to keep you waiting but Lady Kasumi refuses to wake up." Sesshomaru walked over to Kasumi's bed and with a cold voice said, "Get up, now or suffer the consequences."
Kasumi's reply was very short. She turned her back to Sesshomaru and muttered, "Five more minutes mommy." Sesshomru growled. This girl was trying his patience. "Kasumi get up." He bent down and roughly shook her sholders. Kasumi swatted at him but missed by a long shot, "NO! Don't take my goldfish! I promise I'll feed her from now on." Sesshomaru ignored the ranting and continued to shake her. Finally Kasumi woke up and glarred at Sesshomaru, "You know, you could've at least TRIED to have woken me up more nicely." "Get ready we are already behind schedule because of you." With that said he walked out of her room leaving her to get ready.
Kasumi rubbed her eyes and just then did she notice a girl in her room. She was a cat demon with long curly brown hair and unusually bright green eyes. "Um...who are you?" The cat demon bowed her head, "I'm the servent who is to take care of you while you are staying here, Lady Kasumi."
"Please just call me Kasumi, the whole lady crap is just too wierd and you don't have to bow your head." Kasumi hopped off the bed just as the cat demon lifted her head.
"What's your name anyway?"
"Ieshi. What would you like to wear today, La- I mean Kasumi."
Kasumi put her finger to her chin and pretended to think about it, "Hmm...how bout clothes." Ieshi and Kasumi giggled and headed over to the closet. Ieshi opened the closet door and Kasumi gasped. In the closet hung rows of beautiful kimonos and various other things. Kasumi walked into the large closet with Ieshi in tow. As she walked she fingered the lucious material and suddenly realized how hard this was going to be. " Why does Sesshomaru have all these beautiful kimonos?" " He ordered them last night and had them put in here for you. He does it for every guest. Well almost every guest. My Lord is very generous." Ieshi smiled.
She stopped in front of a black kimono with a silver dragon on the back. She pointed to the beautiful kimono, "This one is perfect." Ieshi grabed it and put it on Kasumi's bed, "Would you like me to help you put it on?" Kasumi smiled and nodded, "Yes please, I can't tell you the last time I put one of these on. I would probably just get lost in all the fabric." Ieshi laughed at Kasumi's joke and bagan wrapping her in the beautiful fabric.
Once she was finished getting ready she had Ieshi take her to the dinning room where they knew Sesshomaru would be. As expected Sesshomau was sitting at the head of a very large table. He motioned for Kasumi to take the seat to his left. The seat to his right was already occupied by none other than Rin. When Rin saw Kasumi enter the dinningroom she jumped up and gave Kasumi a hug.
"Thank you so much for helping Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin gave Kasumi a toothy grin.
"It's my pleasure Rin." Kasumi took Rin's hand and led her to her chair. Then she sat down in her own chair.
Once Kasumi sat down three servents came out from behind the door carrying three plates. They set one plate in front of each person. Kasumi fumbled with the choppsticks for a second until she got the right holding. She attempted to grab some noddles but failed misserably. Rin giggled at Kasumi and Sesshomaru could help but give her a sidewards glance. She looked uterly rediculous trying so hard to master the choppsticks.
"Would you like some help with those, Kasumi-chan." Kasumi looked up to see Rin looking at her with a big smile on her face.
Kasumi smiled, "Yes, Thank you Rin." Rin got up from her set and gave Kasumi a lesson on the how to use choppsticks. Sesshomaru watched the entire time with great interest. Once Rin was done teaching her, Kasumi was actually able to eat with out making a total ass of herself.
Sesshomaru got up from the table and looked at Kasumi, "When you are finished meet me in my study. Have Rin or a servent lead you there." He walked out the door and proceded to his study before Kasumi could even respond.
Kasumi sat there for a second, sighed and stood up from the table. "Well I'm finished. Rin would you care to take me to Sesshomaru's study." Rin smiled and hopped up from her seat, "Of chorse!" Rin lead her down a long hallway and made two left turns and a right turn. She stopped in front of two large doors and knocked. "Enter." Rin opened the door and Kasumi walked inside. She walked up to Sesshomaru's desk and he motioned for her to sit down.
"We will be leaving to go the the north in an hour. You will meet me in the courtyard out front. Untill then you may do as you please." Sesshomaru then turned his attention to a scroll that was sitting on his desk.
"Um...Sesshomaru?"
"Hn."
"Why are we going to the miko in the north?"
"I do not need to explain my actions to you."
"Hey! Don't be so rude! I'm here using my valuabe time trying to help you and you not being very grateful!"
"You are forced to help me."
"That's besides the point! If I'm gonna be helping you, I need to know why we are doing the things we are doing."
Sesshomaru really wanted to rub his temples. Not five minutes into the conversation and shes already managed to give him a headache, "We are going to the north because the miko up there is very powerful and has the ability to remove this curse."
"See? Was that SOOO hard?"
"Hn."
"I didn't think so. Ok well since you said I can do whatever I want till we leave guess what I wanna do?"
Sesshomau ignored her and continued reading his scroll. Kasumi pushed the scroll down and said, "Well, guess!" Sesshomaru growled.
"Fine I'll just tell you. I'm gonna stay here and read. Okay?"
"No, leave."
"But you said I could do whatever I wanted and I want to stay here with my favoritest person ever!" Kasumi pulled the I-think-your-great look off really well but Sesshomaru wasn't buying it, "Fine, truth is I don't wanna be near you any more than possible but I need to read up on some things so you can just get over it and continue with what you were doing." She got up and walked to one of the bookshelves and scanned the titles. Finally she found what she was looking for and sat back down.
After an hour of reading up on mikos Sesshomau stood, "It's time to leave."
"By the way, how long is this gonna take?"
"About a week."
"Joy." Kasumi put down her book and followed Sesshomaru down the hallways untill they were outside in the courtyard.
"You will ride Ah-Uh." She looked over at the two headed dragon and nodded. "How will you be traveling?"
Sesshomaru gathered his yokia cloud under his feet and took to the air. Kasumi nodded and smiled, "Neat."